§ 16-1. Fallout shelters.

(a)

Every officer, department, board or commission of the parish, charged with the duty of preparing plans and specifications, or awarding or entering into contracts for the design, erection or construction of buildings, or other structures, including additions to existing structures for the parish shall incorporate or cause to be incorporated in such buildings, or other structures, fallout protection for at least their normal anticipated population which shall meet or exceed the minimum space and fallout protection criteria recommended by federal government unless exempted from such shelter requirements in accordance with this section.

(b)

The parish director of homeland security and emergency preparedness may exempt a building or structure from this section by means of a letter addressed to the parish building permit agent where he finds that such incorporation of fallout shelter will create an additional net cost in the construction of such structure in excess of four percent of the estimated cost thereof without shelter so incorporated, or that other factors as he may determine make unnecessary or impracticable the incorporation of fallout shelter in such structures.

(c)

It shall be the policy of the parish that fallout shelters be incorporated in all public buildings of the parish to the fullest extent practicable, in order to provide protection against radiation for the greatest number of people in the event of nuclear attack.

(Code 1979, § 7-1; Ord. of 5-7-1968, §§ 1, 3)